Great Shearwater

Great Shearwater / Ardenna gravis

Great Shearwater

Here the details of the Great Shearwater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ardenna gravis
Protonym:  Procellaria Gravis Voy.GreenlandAdj.Seas p.140 pl.12 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Procellariidae /
Taxonomy Code:  greshe
Type Locality:  Cape Farewell and Staten Hook to Newfoundland.
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Publish Year:  1818
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DEFINITIONS

ARDENNA
(Procellariidae; Great Shearwater A. gravis) Late Med. L. Ardenna  name given to the Diomedean birds (Aldrovandus 1603) (Ray 1678, has "Artenna"). According to Capponi 1979, Ardènna and Artènna are Italian dialect names (based on ardea) for a shearwater; "Genera et Species typicae.  ...  c. *Ardenna Aldrov.  maior (Puff. — Faber) Rchb.  Ic. Av. t. 14. ic. 770 et 768—69." (Reichenbach 1853); "Ardenna Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852 (1853), p. iv. Type, by original designation, Puffinus maior Faber = Puffinus gravis O'Reilly." (Peters, 1931, I, 53); "Ardenna Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., p. iv, 1852 (1853)—type, by orig. desig., Puffinus major Reichenbach (not of Faber [= Puffinus puffinus]) = Procellaria gravis O'Reilly." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (2), p. 63).
Synon. Hemipuffinus, Neonectris, Paranectris, Thyellodroma, Thyellus.

gravis
L. gravis  heavy, weighty.